Recent content by fraggle

I am re-reading Steve Ozanich's book The Great Pain Deception and learning a lot. I realise that I definitely have had a "shadow eruption" (compulsive shoplifting as a teenager) of which I am deeply ashamed. I've also started to (as Steve Ozanich writes) "despise the people I depend on because...

thank you for your advice, I have never been told that anxiety is not a mental illness. I've always assumed I'm stuck with it and that it's just a mental disorder. It's really opened my eyes. Thank you! This is quite a revelation for me. Medication has never worked for me. I initially tried...

this is quite a revelation to me - when you said that anxiety is a symptom rather than a cause. That it's distracting me from anger. I've never hear of that before, I've just been told by doctors that I have anxiety and to get medicated, which has never helped. Thank you for this insight. I will...

I really need some guidance. I have battled anxiety for 8 years and TMS for 2 years. I have read about repressed emotions however I have been feeling full-blown rage (particularly when my anxiety is high). I'm confused & shocked as to the severity of this rage. It's so hard to suppress and I...

I'm up to day 25 & my lower back pain is so severe it is crippling me. I know that I have conditioned myself to believe that standing intensifies my back pain, but I don't know how to switch it off. I try & get out in public & make myself stand but it pains me & exhausts me. I also don't know...

I'm up to day 23 of the TMS program & my lower back pain has been intensifying & so too has my negative thoughts, it's like a cycle that I can't break. However!..... I was journalling the other day and had a bit of a cry afterwards, then I experienced my ever-present back pain vanish!!! It was...

Thanks JoeHealingTms, I've just finished reading Dr Claire Weeks' book, & I'm literally about to begin Dr Sarno's book tonight. So I will see how that goes. Thank you for your reply, I shall feast on knowledge.

I'm up to day 15 & the pain has intensified in my lower back. I've accepted that it is TMS but it doesn't seem to take a break. The TMS program said that by now I should know what the triggers are for pain. And I do. It's anxiety over hurting my back again (which I've done a few times now). I...

Isnt' it amazing how our perception of ourselves is so different. I feel that the whole world must see how anxious I am, yet we appear quite calm to the outside world. Thank you for sharing, it makes it easer.

So I'm up to day 10 of the TMS structured program & the question i was asked is who do I hide my feelings from? Well basically everyone except my husband. As I suffer from anxiety as well as TMS I desperately want to just be normal. I want to be like everyone else so I don't give away my secret...